Mark S. Gold
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Mark S. Gold is the University of Florida
Distinguished Alumni Professor for 2011-2013. He is a Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar and distinguished professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, community health and family medicine. He is also the current chairman of the department of psychiatry in the University of Florida College of Medicine
. Dr. Gold is a researcher and inventor who has worked for over 40 years to develop models for understanding the effects of tobacco
, cocaine
, other drugs and food on the brain and behavior. He created the Division of Addiction Medicine at UF and its treatment program, the Florida Recovery Center. With Drs. Bob Dupont and Tom McLellan, he has studied physician and health professionals who have become addicted and their outcomes after treatment.
Dr. Gold has been working on new, addiction-based models for understanding hedonic overeating, food addiction and the development of new therapies. He has done similar work for opiate
addiction which led to the discovery of clonidine’s efficacy in opiate withdrawal and cocaine addiction which led to the dopamine hypothesis (Patent #4/312,878). He is currently working on a report about second and third hand opium exposure in Kabul
for the United States State Department. He has worked on smoking, second and third hand tobacco smoke previously with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
and FAMRI. He has worked with a variety of government agencies concerned with drug use and youth. Among those organizations are the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy
, Media Partnership for a Drug Free America, the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
, and the Betty Ford Center Foundation.
Along with tobacco, alcohol and other neurobiology of drug addiction studies, Dr. Gold has worked for over 30 years to evaluate the hypothesis that hedonic overeating is a pathological attachment to food like any other addiction. Dr. Gold is a co-editor of the 2012 food addiction textbook published by Oxford Press. He is also the author of general audience books and has written over 900 scientific articles, chapters, and abstracts published in journals for neuroscientists and health professionals.
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
Distinguished Alumni Professor for 2011-2013. He is a Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar and distinguished professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, community health and family medicine. He is also the current chairman of the department of psychiatry in the University of Florida College of Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
The University of Florida College of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Florida. It is part of the J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center, with facilities in Gainesville and Jacksonville...
. Dr. Gold is a researcher and inventor who has worked for over 40 years to develop models for understanding the effects of tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
, cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
, other drugs and food on the brain and behavior. He created the Division of Addiction Medicine at UF and its treatment program, the Florida Recovery Center. With Drs. Bob Dupont and Tom McLellan, he has studied physician and health professionals who have become addicted and their outcomes after treatment.
Dr. Gold has been working on new, addiction-based models for understanding hedonic overeating, food addiction and the development of new therapies. He has done similar work for opiate
Opiate
In medicine, the term opiate describes any of the narcotic opioid alkaloids found as natural products in the opium poppy plant.-Overview:Opiates are so named because they are constituents or derivatives of constituents found in opium, which is processed from the latex sap of the opium poppy,...
addiction which led to the discovery of clonidine’s efficacy in opiate withdrawal and cocaine addiction which led to the dopamine hypothesis (Patent #4/312,878). He is currently working on a report about second and third hand opium exposure in Kabul
Kabul
Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...
for the United States State Department. He has worked on smoking, second and third hand tobacco smoke previously with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Drug Abuse
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a United States federal-government research institute whose mission is to "lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction."-History:...
and FAMRI. He has worked with a variety of government agencies concerned with drug use and youth. Among those organizations are the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy
Office of National Drug Control Policy
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy , a former cabinet level component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1989 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988...
, Media Partnership for a Drug Free America, the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University was established in 1992 by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. The stated official goals of the organization are:...
, and the Betty Ford Center Foundation.
Along with tobacco, alcohol and other neurobiology of drug addiction studies, Dr. Gold has worked for over 30 years to evaluate the hypothesis that hedonic overeating is a pathological attachment to food like any other addiction. Dr. Gold is a co-editor of the 2012 food addiction textbook published by Oxford Press. He is also the author of general audience books and has written over 900 scientific articles, chapters, and abstracts published in journals for neuroscientists and health professionals.
Education
- Washington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...
- Medical degree from the University of Florida College of MedicineUniversity of Florida College of MedicineThe University of Florida College of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Florida. It is part of the J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center, with facilities in Gainesville and Jacksonville...
- Residency and fellowship at Yale School of MedicineYale School of MedicineThe Yale School of Medicine at Yale University is a private medical school located in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. It was founded in 1810 as The Medical Institution of Yale College, and formally opened its doors in 1813....
External links
- Mark S. Gold named 2011-2013 UF Distinguished Alumni Professor
- Mark S. Gold named 2008 Yale Distinguished Alumni
- Yale Hosts Historic Conference on Food and Addiction
- Wall Street Journal food addiction article
- Bloomberg article on food addiction
- Explaining the Disease of Addiction
- Mark S. Gold named 1989 Washington University Distinguished Alumni